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Causal history operates as a structural ledger of dependency relations rather than a temporal sequence, where past events persist because they remain load-bearing for subsequent structures. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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To investigate the structural fate of historical information when entities emerge and terminate, proposing a non-temporal dependency model of causal persistence.

August 28, 2026Open Access

CosmoBeating • The Causal Ledger of Emergence and Extinction — Paper IV: Extinction

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WTWai-Hung (Pan) Tam

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Theoretical analysis reveals causal history behaves as dependency networks in complex physical systems, suggesting extinction halts new structure generation without erasing past foundational records.

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To investigate the structural fate of historical information when entities emerge and terminate, proposing a non-temporal dependency model of causal persistence.
Conceptual and structural modeling integrating principles from information theory, complex systems, and the philosophy of physics.
Formulation of causal history as a directed ledger graph where ordering is governed by dependency relations rather than metric time coordinates.
Application of the structural ledger framework across physical, cognitive, and cosmological scales to evaluate erasure resistance and termination mechanisms.
Identifies that causal irreversibility originates from the structural cost of unravelling dependent layers rather than the simple passage of physical time.
Demonstrates that extinction marks the cessation of generating new dependent structures, leaving prior load-bearing contributions intact rather than deleted.
Proposes that configurations with discrete topological properties resist environmental erasure, reframing non-local quantum correlations and memory retrieval as access to shared ledger records.

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Wai-Hung (Pan) Tam (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a91466cd15324a1df3aa03b https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22113382

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Theoretical analysis reveals causal history behaves as dependency networks in complex physical systems, suggesting extinction halts new structure generation without erasing past foundational records.

CosmoBeating • The Causal Ledger of Emergence and Extinction — Paper IV: Extinction

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